From the Lund University press release: Individual neurons can learn not only single responses to a particular signal, but also a series of reactions at precisely timed intervals. This is what emerges from a study…
From the University of Eastern Finland press release: Difficulties in initiating or maintaining sleep at middle-age are associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.…
From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine press release: For years, the common narrative in human developmental neuroimaging has been that gray matter in the brain — the tissue found in regions of the brain…
From the Radboud University press release: For a long time, researchers thought of the visual cortex as a brain area that determines what you perceive based on information coming from the eyes. Neuroscientists from Radboud…
From the Cell Press press release: Stress changes our eating habits, but the mechanism may not be purely psychological, research in mice suggests. A study published May 30 in Cell Metabolism found that stressed mouse…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release: What happens in the brain when we see other people experiencing a trauma or being subjected to pain? Well, the same regions that are involved when we feel pain…
From the American Psychological Association press release: Fathers with toddler daughters are more attentive and responsive to those daughters’ needs than fathers with toddler sons are to the needs of those sons, according to brain…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Two new studies link patterns of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the blood to the integrity of brain structures and cognitive abilities that are known to decline early…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release: Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a new way that cells in the brain alert the rest of the body to recruit immune cells when the brain…
From the eLife press release: Humans treat ‘inferred’ visual objects generated by the brain as more reliable than external images from the real world, according to new research published in eLife. The study, from the…